It seems to me like the problem here is that gamers are just angry when "game media" does anything, at all. I think we've started to look at game media the way we do mainstream, general news outlets - biased shills sporting a position, rather than reporting the news. Also, vocal minority, blah blah blah.
So maybe this is a bigger societal problem than just a gamer thing.
Edit: Thought about this a little more and now new things are spewing from my brain:
The problem in the games industry, if there's one coherent theme through all of Jim's work, is entitlement.
Gamers are entitled to good games with good reviews that follow exactly what they believe a good game and good review should look like.
Studios are entitled to sheeple buying their games with no complaints, then the DLC, then the micro-transactions, etc.
And reviewers are entitled to nobody ever doing anything but praising them for their critiquing abilities, and agreeing with them.
We're all entitled. Even me, bothering to post this on a gaming forum on the Internet. Maybe we all need to get over ourselves and play more damn games.